School: Port Omna (B) (roll number 2174)

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1. Portumna Abbey (continued)

   

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   it had as its first prior Fr. Gerald Davock who completed the building & received many novices. Fr Richard Madden among the number was a brilliant student and afterwards finished his noveciate in Spain: & was delayed returning to Ireland owing to the cromwellian war so he taught for some time in Belgium. On restoration of order here, he returned home & was a most energetic preacher in Irish & in 1678 he became a prior of Portumna Abbey. On the rout of the catholic army 1691 & the plundering of everything by a victorious enemy, Fr Madden hid himself in an impassable bog keeping close, while it took the enemy a fortnight to pass, he wasted away through want & privation as all who should & were able to succour him were fleeing from the face of the enemy, he died in that year.
   Father Walsh of the same community a fellow novice of Fr Richard O'Madden's suffered a lot of persecution, under Cromwell he was hidden by a friend

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Ó Broin

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Informant

   Mairtín Ó hÉidhin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Occupation

   Siopadóir

   Address

   Gortanummera, Co. Galway